Strategic QA Lead - Enterprise Testing & Release Readiness

OpenText; Mississauga; Presencial; CAD 92.000 - 139.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OpenText in Mississauga is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to own QA strategy across enterprise programs. You will guide integration, functional, regression, automation validation, performance, and data validation, ensuring testing aligns to business processes and risk.

You will lead teams, drive readiness, and report progress to executives, shaping quality governance and release decisions for complex digital transformation initiatives.

Formación

• 8+ years in software QA, including leadership of QA teams, test workstreams, or enterprise testing initiatives across Agile and waterfall models.
• Strong end-to-end methodology across strategy, planning, scripting, execution, defect management, metrics, risk, release validation, and production readiness.
• Hands-on experience with integration testing, test automation, SAP exposure, third-party and internally developed applications, data validation, deployment verification, and release management.
• Leadership and Reporting: ability to influence stakeholders, facilitate decisions, coach teams, manage priorities, and produce executive-ready dashboards, KPI summaries, defect analysis, risk assessments, and release recommendations.
• Tools and Technical Awareness: Expertise with Value Edge and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, qTest, TestRail, Confluence, Excel, or Power BI; working knowledge of automation, CI/CD, API testing, version control, build systems, and integrations.
• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent experience; ISTQB, CSTE, Agile, Scrum, or project management certification preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Define Test Strategy and Readiness: Create test strategies, plans, entry/exit criteria, traceability, resource plans, test data needs, environment checks, test lab setup, and timelines.
• Lead Test Execution: Monitor progress, drive scope completion, coordinate hands-on testing, resolve blockers, validate enhancements, and confirm user needs are met.
• Manage Value Edge: Maintain test cycles, plans, labs, permissions, group memberships, and project setup/closure activities.
• Own QA Reporting: Report execution progress, pass/fail rates, open/closed defects, severity, aging, coverage, risks, blockers, and release readiness.
• Translate Quality Data: Explain test results, defect patterns, operational risk, customer impact, and deployment readiness for leadership decisions.
• Drive Defect Governance: Facilitate triage, assign priority, support investigation and reproduction, track closure, and elevate critical risks.
• Ensure Traceability: Confirm coverage against requirements, processes, controls, integrations, data flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Improve and Coach: Mentor team members and improve test practices, automation coverage, reporting, reusable assets, governance routines, and lessons learned adoption.

Conocimientos

QA Leadership

Test Strategy

Automation Testing

Azure DevOps

Jira

qTest

TestRail

Confluence

Excel

Power BI

API Testing

CI/CD

Version Control

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Information Systems

ISTQB Certification

CSTE Certification

Agile / Scrum Certification

Project Management Certification

Herramientas

SAP

Descripción del empleo

OpenText in Mississauga is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to own QA strategy across enterprise programs. You will guide integration, functional, regression, automation validation, performance, and data validation, ensuring testing aligns to business processes and risk.

You will lead teams, drive readiness, and report progress to executives, shaping quality governance and release decisions for complex digital transformation initiatives.